Salman Rafi Sheikh writes about the implications of Pakistan’s growing ties with Saudi Arabia, testing the country’s neutrality and bringing the Saudi-UAE rivalry to Southasia.
Audrey Truschke's ‘India: 5,000 Years of History in the Subcontinent’ revisits millennia of Southasia’s past beyond dynasties and nationalist mythmaking
Two journalists detained in the Maldives, India hosts BRICS foreign minister summit, Pakistan denies allowing Iranian military aircraft to park during negotiations and more
Tamil writing under scrutiny in Sri Lanka, new books on authoritarianism and radical democracy, an Afghan memoir of food and exile, a landmark translation from Angika, and more from across Southasian publishing
